After Forcing Her to Marry Him, He Secretly Hides the Brooding Emperor's Child

[Mutual firsts, one-on-one, possessive romance, breaking apart and getting back together] Yun Chu had been assigned to the emperor as a medicine-serving palace maid by the Empress Dowager when she was little. For fourteen whole years, Xiao Yan had kept her pampered at his side. Whatever she wanted, he granted. She had come to believe it was true. Beneath the dragon gauze curtains, she gently looped her jade arms around the man's neck and breathed against him like an orchid: "Brother Yan, would you let me give you a princess?" The drunken man gripped the petite woman's waist tightly, his gaze icy. "All of My children must be born of the empress. If you ever harbor an improper thought..." Yun Chu silently abandoned the idea, then angrily bit his shoulder, tears streaking her face. The next morning, while the emperor was away on a military campaign, she accepted the Empress Dowager's arranged marriage and left for Jiangnan with the child she had carried for two months, intending to spend the rest of her life there. A year later, before her husband's coffin, Yun Chu stood in mourning clothes with a white flower in her hair. She bowed gracefully to the emperor, whose eyes were full of menace. "Your Majesty, I thank you for coming in person to see my husband off on his final journey." After offering incense, the emperor's face darkened. Seeing the pair of clear, limpid eyes he had longed for in his dreams, he angrily bit her lip until beads of blood formed and bitterness spread. "If he was your husband, then who am I to you?" "An old acquaintance of Xiao Lang's, nothing more." "Xiao Lang? An old acquaintance?" Afraid he would try to take her child, Yun Chu nodded in agreement. With a sneer, Xiao Yan refused to keep up the pretense. He seized the woman he loved and brought her back to the palace, teaching her through action what it meant for a wife to obey her husband. He spoiled her in every possible way, never realizing that she was carefully guarding the secret of the child she had once borne, terrified he might discover it...